Centralized solution to update Adobe CS4

Question

Hello,
Does Adobe propose a solution to centrally update its programs ?
I am thinking about something like WSUS for Windows Updates or Mac OS X server centralized update server.
A solution that can manage, monitor and enables us to only download the updates once for every machines.
I am in a training center with more than 100 Macs and 50 PC's each with Adobe CS 4 installed. It's really painful if not impossible to update Adobe products. It requires a lot of bandwith and far too much manual intervention.
If anyone can help me. I would really appreciate.
p.a

Answer 1

It is a shame that Adobe doesn't make it easier to patch this suite. I just finished writing a script that will install all the latest updates to CS4 Master Collection. This will update a Windows installation.
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@echo off
TITLE Adobe CS4 Updates
set instdir=C:\TEMP\AdobeCS4Updates
::Acrobat Professional 9.1.2
msiexec /p "%instdir%\Acrobat_9_1_2\AcroProStdUpd910_T1T2_incr.msp" /qn /norestart REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=omus
msiexec /p "%instdir%\Acrobat_9_1_2\AcrobatUpd912_all_incr.msp" /qn /norestart REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=omus
::Flash
"%instdir%\Flash_10_0_2_AdobeUpdate\Setup.exe" --mode=silent
::Device Central 2.1.1/FlashLite 3.1
"%instdir%\DeviceCentral_2.1.1-FlashLite_mul_AdobeUpdate\Setup.exe" --mode=silent
::InDesign 6.0.3
"%instdir%\AdobeInDesign6_0_3\Setup.exe" --mode=silent
::Photoshop 11.0.1
"%instdir%\Photoshop_11.0.1_mul_AdobeUpdate\Setup.exe" --mode=silent
::Bridge 2.1
"%instdir%\AdobeOutputModule-2.1-Bridge-mul-AdobeUpdate\Setup.exe" --mode=silent
::Camera Raw 5.4
"%instdir%\Camera_Raw_5_4_updater\Setup.exe" --mode=silent
::AfterEffects
"%instdir%\AfterEffects-9.0.2-mul-AdobeUpdate\Setup.exe" --mode=silent
::Encore 4.0.1
"%instdir%\Encore-4.0.1-mul-AdobeUpdate\Setup.exe" --mode=silent
::Fireworks 10.0.3
"%instdir%\Fireworks_10_0_3_All_AdobeUpdate\Setup.exe" --mode=silent
::OnLocation 4.0.3
"%instdir%\OnLocation-4.0.3-mul-AdobeUpdate\Setup.exe" --mode=silent
::Premiere Pro 4.1.0
"%instdir%\PremierePro-4.1-mul-AdobeUpdate\Setup.exe" --mode=silent
::Soundbooth 2.0.1
"%instdir%\Soundbooth201\Setup.exe" --mode=silent
::Adobe Media Encoder 4.1.0
"%instdir%\AME_All_CS4.1_mul_AdobeUpdate\Setup.exe" --mode=silent
::Extension Manager 2.1
"%instdir%\AdobeExtensionManager-2.1-mul-AdobeUpdate\Setup.exe" --mode=silent
::Version Cue Server 4.0.1
"%instdir%\AdobeVersionCue4All_4.0.1_AdobeUpdate\Setup.exe" --mode=silent
exit
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Just copy from @echo off down to exit and paste it into notepad. Save the file as either a .bat or .cmd file. You will need to change the third line, set instdir=C:\TEMP\AdobeCS4Updates, to the path to the folder you have the updates stored.
What you need to do is download all the above updates from Adobe. Unfortunately, you will have to navigate to several pages to get all the updates. Most will be on the CS4 updates page, but several of them will require selecting the individual product to get to it. Extract all the updates and place the extracted folders into one folder. In my script example above, all the extracted update folders are located in a folder named C:\TEMP\AdobeCS4Updates. You will also need to double check the extracted update folders names to see if they match the path listed in the script. I think there are 1 or 2 that I changed the name slightly from what is the default (I know for sure I did this for the Adobe Output Module, it didn't have the Bridge part in there).
The Acrobat updates don't get extracted since they are msp files. You will also need to copy AcroPro.msi into the folder you store the 2 msp files in. Copy AcroPro.msi from the folder C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Setup Files\guid (guid will be some long string that I'm too lazy to type out). If you installed to some other location, get the file from that location.
All other update files will be zip files when downloaded except for Flash. Flash will be an exe, but just extract it like the others.
OnLocation version 4.0.3 update is not currently listed on the download site as of this posting. I have posted it in another thread.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2141485#2141485
You can modify this script to match your deployment methods. I hope this helps someone since Adobe doesn't seem to have a better method for mass updating.